Woodworking and Woodturning Links:

The Woodturners Association of Manitoba (WAM) is the club I got started in Manitoba a number of years ago, and it has turned out to be a fairly active club, focussed in the Winnipeg area, mostly. This site will give you an overview of club meeting topics, etc., and provide links for information.

The World of Woodturners have thousands of photos of their members' work. The free site requires a username and password, which you can apply for at the home page. The site is dedicated to the exchange of ideas, provide a place for turners to keep a private album of photos, to get feedback on their work, to store and retrieve files of information, obtain tips, and get questions answered. I am the originator and administrator of the site, and created it to get away from spam and the ill-tempered nature of the newsgroups. We have about 1,600 members at last count, and about 30,000 photos. The World of Woodturners is very much a big family, and that is the atmosphere you will find at the site.

The American Association of Woodturners is one of the #1 sites for woodturners. The Association has more than 10,000 members, and is THE site for finding out what is going on in the woodturning business. A good place to watch for the news, photos, videos etc. of their wonderful annual Symposium, and to obtain all kinds of training assistance.

Wood Turners Guild of North Carolina have galleries of their members' work going back to 2000. Each month has a couple dozen photographs of beautiful turnings created by their members. You've gotta see this.

Woodturning on the Web is an excellent site with dozens of links to other woodturning sites. Robert Spragg has done a great job 'scoping out good sites and linking them here.

Another good site with links is the Penninsula Woodturner's Guild. You will enjoy the articles on woodturning and some of the excellent work in their galleries.

Fred Holder has a wonderful woodturning home site. He links from there to his store, to the Northwest Washington Woodturners site and a lot of other links. It's well worth a visit.

Mike Orr from British Columbia has one of the nicest designed pages I've seen in a long time. He has some great work and tips of his own, plus a LOT of links to other woodturning pages (including this one :)).

The Canadian Woodturners' Association is defunct as of now, March, 2004. They are trying to get going again, and are looking for a leader. The contact is on the page if you are interested in helping.

Then, you could always visit the very nice site of Marshall Gorrow.

Australia is the home of the Sydney Woodturners Guild with a lot of links to some really beautiful work being done by woodturners there. It's worth the trip.

Another Canadian site is that of Don Thur at his "Knots and Burls to Bowls". You'll envy the burls he gets to turn.

Alan's Guide to Woodturning can be found here. The link was suggested to me by a student intern working on similar sites for Marylyn Brooks, a library project leader in Nevada.

Sean Troy is from Arizona and only uses reclaimed wood, like storm damaged trees, in his turning. A relatively new turner, he has some lovely pieces in his gallery. Worth a look.

The Kingston, Ontario club has a great site with great turners. Visit them here.